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What is Laksha Pushparchana

Laksha Pushparchana is worship with a hundred thousand flowers. Laksha means a hundred thousand, and pushparchana is an archana of flowers ( pushpa ). Where an ordinary archana offers a flower with each of 108 names, Laksha Pushparchana offers a lakh.

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At Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple, Yadagirigutta, it is offered to Lord Lakshmi Narasimha and his consorts on Ekadashi.

What is Laksha Pushparchana

Why Ekadashi

Ekadashi is the eleventh day of the lunar fortnight, and it comes twice a month, once as the moon waxes and once as it wanes. Vaishnavas keep it for Vishnu, many by fasting, and the Bhagavata Purana tells of King Ambarisha, a devotee of Vishnu, who kept it. His story is told in The King Who Kept Ekadashi.

What devotees seek

Laksha Pushparchana is among the fullest forms of flower worship a temple offers: a hundred thousand flowers, the thousand names of both the Lord and the Goddess, and about two hours before the deity on the Lord's own day. Devotees offer it as an act of devotion on Ekadashi, and for the occasions they hold most important: a birthday, an anniversary, a vow fulfilled, a family's thanks.

What happens

As reported at Yadagirigutta: the festival images of the Lord and his consorts are dressed in silk and seated on a special platform in the front hall (mukha mandapam) of the main shrine of the self-manifested Lord. The archakas and Veda pandits perform the worship according to the Pancharatra Agama, offering flowers of many kinds while reciting the thousand names (sahasranama) of the Lord and of the Goddess. The worship continues for about two hours.

What you receive

When you book through VedaJyoti, you receive a recorded video of the worship.